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03 · Caribbean Solo Travel

Chasing the dream, one departure at a time.

Honest notes from the road: the decision, the nerves, and the first morning somewhere new.

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Go before you feel ready. You never quite do.Leslieann

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The list keeps growing

Some of these have a post behind them and some of them don't yet.

  • Home

    Trinidad & Tobago

    Born and raised there. Still the measure I hold everywhere else against.

  • September 2024

    Grenada

    My parents’ island. I spent a birthday driving through nearly every parish with my aunt.

  • Carnival

    Tobago

    Loud, joyful, and the kind of noise that puts you back together.

  • By sea

    The Bahamas

    A cruise, which turned out to be a very good way to meet an island for the first time.

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Some things you can only learn a long way from home.

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I'm a travel creator and writer. I make honest, unhurried work that people want to save and send to a friend.

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  • Solo travel, moving abroad, and the Caribbean in particular

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